Hey I am a novice I’ve been learning to do SEO on my websites. Where should I start to learn on your channel? Also,are there any other SEO educators you recommend?
100% agree with you. These methods are old and redundant yet people still follow these practices. It's good that they are directly calling out this black hat tactics and now penalizing them. We may have a better and clean SERP.
Appreciate that. Certainly try! Some haters out there but that's alright. Trying to cut the noise of the other RUclips garbage and people love that trash.
can you do a video on your take on CTR manipulation? I have been offered several softwares to do this but I am not sure specially for local listings of my clients the Google my business, awesome content as always
So when you talk about expired diamonds, being nice. Good. You mean you can't buy an expired domain and then starting to rebuild it in a genuine way and I'm building pages for the existing bank links.
All of these things work. This is why Google claims it's going to crack down on them. For someone who started out talking about black hat tactics, you've gone full white hat on here. What happened to sharing all of the dirty secrets that all good SEOs use?
None of them work. Google is only telling you what it's already put into place. And further putting into place. Happy to discuss more BH tactics that work. But, stop listening to GURUs.
@@SEOtruths Link building, mass content creation, parasite SEO, spam, and expired domains are all alive and well in 2024. They will be after this update has completed, too. Are none of these things working for you and your agency?
@@SEOtruths That is absolutely ridiculous. The update said "This is designed to improve the quality of Search by showing less content that feels like it was made to attract clicks, and more content that people find useful." If these spammy things weren't working then their statement wouldn't make any sense. The best you can say is that they don't work very well and after this update they are going to work even less.
1000% agree with all of this. Thanks for keeping it real. So many other SEO youtubers are out here trying to claim that Google targeting "content at scale" is "unfair."
LOL @ stop using AI content, there is no way for Google to determine how content is created, sure right out of the box with simple prompts it might be, but the way I have set it up with Zimmwriter there is no way in hell that Google (or you) can spot the AI content. You are starting to sound like a clone of Matt Cutts, just make sure your content is okay and buy some good links and have some active SM profiles and you will be fine (just like all the other updates where Google was going to kill spam)
AI generated content creates a post for one keyword phrase ... hand made content is trying to create content for multiple phrases. I say trying, I'm not sure how successful others are at their content. There may be some people in the crossfire who shouldn't have been. I'm referring to this quote given to search engine land: Google said this update has refined how it understands which webpages are “unhelpful, have a poor user experience or feel like they were created for search engines instead of people.” This “could include sites created primarily to match very specific search queries,” Google added.
AI Content is fine, but it has to be done in a very particular way. None of our sites were hit... but yes I agree all these YT'rs who are pushing 1000 posts a month all got slapped pretty hard. At the end of the day, do SEO as if you were a real legit business. Brand is very important too
Sound advice. AI content generally *could* work. With these tactics. For the general public-don’t do it. Also, we don’t know what’ll happen after March really rolls out.
It does work haha. None of our sites got penalized - but again I’m not here announcing to the world what those are. Could be part of their play too But yeah - leave it to the pros 😅
Define topical authority ... are we talking the same kind of topical authority that newspapers use when they need to interview a person who is an expert or authority for their newspaper, or new channel? Or, are we talking the kind of topical authority that a taxi driver would have because his last job was in that profession, but other than his resume has no authority that would give the newspaper a reason to publish his name as their goto person on the topic? I worked with a video production company a little over a decade ago, and the first type of topical authority worked back then ... managed through controversy to get the company name dropped by newspapers left and right as well as Obama's website. The site got a lot of traffic and sold a lot of videos.
@@Solution-Smith lm not talking about expertise. Lets say i have site about lakes, only 20% of posts about lakes are getting some traffic. Do i need to remove other 80, aren't they supporting topical map and authority? Or its all bs
@@king_cj @king_cj I'ld like to hear SEO Truths' opinion on the subject as well. I do not have hard data on that question at this time; I'm returning to doing SEO; I'd speculate that the 80 that are being helpful are not being helpful at all at this moment in time, and look for how I can build the site to qualify those lakes into the site. Going blind - I'ld give it a shot to fill in the topical tree or entity tree for the lakes, with a SEO Silo ... "hasPart" : [ { "@type": {"WebPage" }, "name" : "fishing", "URL" : " ", "sameAs": "... wikidata/entity/Q14373" }, { "@type": {"WebPage" }, "name" : "camping, "URL" : "", "sameAs": "wikidata/entity/Q14373" }, ... ] before I'd walk away from the terms. Likely try other things as well; I don't like to walk away from a search term. I would have regrets if there was something easy I could have done but walked away.
You'll have to make a judgement call. But I would say content that's getting no visibility that has potential quality problems with it-won't really help with "topical authority." If you don't feel like they have quality problems to them, keep them up but it's a risk! This is a part of Google's system that no tool out there is helping to measure (yet).
Im using AI sometimes for my website for some English translation hope this wont effect my website, and my domain is registered since 1997 I hand registered it
Unfortunately, for translations, it will still get marked as AI. It's complicated. And I don't think Google is catching every edge case they're looking for (clearly).
Ya I help a water damage company that has 2 locations very hard competition as far as amount of keywords. The owner asked me how about publishing AI content I told him no it’s not worth it when all the hype started about mass producing articles. Lol I’m glad I never went that route yay!!!
Would you recommend removing "supporting content" blog posts that drive no traffic? eg these would have been set up to build topical authority with the aim of internally linking to category pages that you want to rank. I see this a lot with sites that use this tactic.
The true answer is that it's really hard to tell. Review that supportive content and determine its quality. If it addresses the Users question very quickly and with accuracy, then keep it. If not, consider updating it.
I am not selling anything. The next seconds, I am selling professional services lol
You don't have to buy anything from me!
Hey I am a novice I’ve been learning to do SEO on my websites. Where should I start to learn on your channel? Also,are there any other SEO educators you recommend?
100% agree with you. These methods are old and redundant yet people still follow these practices. It's good that they are directly calling out this black hat tactics and now penalizing them. We may have a better and clean SERP.
I'm game for NEW ways to find an edge! But, just using the same old tactics and having them be new names is getting old.
Bro you really get the edge when watching your content, good job!
Appreciate that. Certainly try! Some haters out there but that's alright. Trying to cut the noise of the other RUclips garbage and people love that trash.
can you do a video on your take on CTR manipulation? I have been offered several softwares to do this but I am not sure specially for local listings of my clients the Google my business, awesome content as always
That's going to be the next thing they start checking for! Remember, try not to GAME Google. Rather, learn what they like and FEED it to them.
How do we do CTR manipulation? Like adding clickbaity meta titles?
@@syedshoaib4539 he's talking about buying "fake clicks" to increase the CTR. Just make good title tags and stop trying to trick Google.
@@syedshoaib4539no XD
yoo my man is back
So when you talk about expired diamonds, being nice. Good. You mean you can't buy an expired domain and then starting to rebuild it in a genuine way and I'm building pages for the existing bank links.
Correct this doesn’t work. Buy a healthy domain. A live site. One that’s getting traffic. And build that up instead.
All of these things work. This is why Google claims it's going to crack down on them. For someone who started out talking about black hat tactics, you've gone full white hat on here. What happened to sharing all of the dirty secrets that all good SEOs use?
None of them work. Google is only telling you what it's already put into place. And further putting into place. Happy to discuss more BH tactics that work. But, stop listening to GURUs.
@@SEOtruths Link building, mass content creation, parasite SEO, spam, and expired domains are all alive and well in 2024. They will be after this update has completed, too. Are none of these things working for you and your agency?
@@SEOtruths That is absolutely ridiculous. The update said "This is designed to improve the quality of Search by showing less content that feels like it was made to attract clicks, and more content that people find useful."
If these spammy things weren't working then their statement wouldn't make any sense.
The best you can say is that they don't work very well and after this update they are going to work even less.
@@JimWellsIsGreat I don't understand his logic. Why would they announce new polices aimed at reducing things that simply don't work?
@@marclaclear6628 I've showed ya'll chart after chart after chart. If it's working so well for you, WHY ARE YOU HERE? LOLZ!
1000% agree with all of this. Thanks for keeping it real. So many other SEO youtubers are out here trying to claim that Google targeting "content at scale" is "unfair."
LOL @ stop using AI content, there is no way for Google to determine how content is created, sure right out of the box with simple prompts it might be, but the way I have set it up with Zimmwriter there is no way in hell that Google (or you) can spot the AI content.
You are starting to sound like a clone of Matt Cutts, just make sure your content is okay and buy some good links and have some active SM profiles and you will be fine (just like all the other updates where Google was going to kill spam)
Y'all really want it to work so badly. I get it. Then, why isn't it working? LOL
What are the top things you would remove if your site is "over-optimized?"
AI generated content creates a post for one keyword phrase ... hand made content is trying to create content for multiple phrases. I say trying, I'm not sure how successful others are at their content. There may be some people in the crossfire who shouldn't have been.
I'm referring to this quote given to search engine land: Google said this update has refined how it understands which webpages are “unhelpful, have a poor user experience or feel like they were created for search engines instead of people.” This “could include sites created primarily to match very specific search queries,” Google added.
This is a far better way and educated perspective to look at AI content. It simply isn't cutting it. Hasn't been for years.
"Luckily" I never have to do anything in regards to these updates, and the traffic keeps going up and to the right.
gold!
I am forever anti-linkedin. Circle-jerking, humble-bragging, copy/paste fake review playground.
AI Content is fine, but it has to be done in a very particular way. None of our sites were hit... but yes I agree all these YT'rs who are pushing 1000 posts a month all got slapped pretty hard. At the end of the day, do SEO as if you were a real legit business. Brand is very important too
Sound advice. AI content generally *could* work. With these tactics. For the general public-don’t do it. Also, we don’t know what’ll happen after March really rolls out.
It does work haha. None of our sites got penalized - but again I’m not here announcing to the world what those are. Could be part of their play too
But yeah - leave it to the pros 😅
@@DannyVeiga ok but also-March update is taking effect May 5. If you’re alive now. It’s not a sign you’re alive forever.
@@SEOtruths nothing in life is guaranteed :)
I am so glad for this update
Thanks for the update and keeping it real. ❤
Was waiting for you to speak on this! Thank you!
Thanks for your update ❤❤
Rank and rents dont work? GOOD JOKE HAHAHA
Keep wasting your time!
@@SEOtruths Tell that to the richest SEO in the world that only builds rank and rents. Good luck with your little RUclips thing tho.
301 redirection with expired domain always worked good. if was not working they will not even talk about it
*worked is the key, here. I don't get why everyone always wants to shoot themselves in the foot.
@@SEOtruths will just wait for the data on a couple of mine to confirm
I don't get why you are towing the Google company line without any data just on their say so... @@SEOtruths
Yup, still works.
Removing unpopular content, that means that "topical authority" is also fake?
Define topical authority ... are we talking the same kind of topical authority that newspapers use when they need to interview a person who is an expert or authority for their newspaper, or new channel? Or, are we talking the kind of topical authority that a taxi driver would have because his last job was in that profession, but other than his resume has no authority that would give the newspaper a reason to publish his name as their goto person on the topic?
I worked with a video production company a little over a decade ago, and the first type of topical authority worked back then ... managed through controversy to get the company name dropped by newspapers left and right as well as Obama's website. The site got a lot of traffic and sold a lot of videos.
@@Solution-Smith lm not talking about expertise. Lets say i have site about lakes, only 20% of posts about lakes are getting some traffic. Do i need to remove other 80, aren't they supporting topical map and authority? Or its all bs
@@king_cj @king_cj I'ld like to hear SEO Truths' opinion on the subject as well. I do not have hard data on that question at this time; I'm returning to doing SEO; I'd speculate that the 80 that are being helpful are not being helpful at all at this moment in time, and look for how I can build the site to qualify those lakes into the site.
Going blind - I'ld give it a shot to fill in the topical tree or entity tree for the lakes, with a SEO Silo ... "hasPart" : [ { "@type": {"WebPage" }, "name" : "fishing", "URL" : " ", "sameAs": "... wikidata/entity/Q14373" }, { "@type": {"WebPage" }, "name" : "camping, "URL" : "", "sameAs": "wikidata/entity/Q14373" }, ... ] before I'd walk away from the terms. Likely try other things as well; I don't like to walk away from a search term. I would have regrets if there was something easy I could have done but walked away.
You'll have to make a judgement call. But I would say content that's getting no visibility that has potential quality problems with it-won't really help with "topical authority." If you don't feel like they have quality problems to them, keep them up but it's a risk! This is a part of Google's system that no tool out there is helping to measure (yet).
Im using AI sometimes for my website for some English translation hope this wont effect my website, and my domain is registered since 1997 I hand registered it
Unfortunately, for translations, it will still get marked as AI. It's complicated. And I don't think Google is catching every edge case they're looking for (clearly).
@@SEOtruths have been using A.I to write on my blog, I have about 200 posts. What will I do? Please help me !!!
@@vibesbulletTV he has zero clue. Wait and see is all you can do. I heavily use ai and all my websites are still up.
Thanks for breaking it down. Great vid.
But have been using Ai to write on my blog!! What should I do noww 😢? Delete all the posts or Delete the domain
None of both. Google doesnt know shit.
@@whiteswordwarrior9995 I should not delete it right!
Ya I help a water damage company that has 2 locations very hard competition as far as amount of keywords. The owner asked me how about publishing AI content I told him no it’s not worth it when all the hype started about mass producing articles. Lol I’m glad I never went that route yay!!!
You are costing your client money!
Oh boy !! Need to clean up my sites !!
Julian goldie crying in a corner right now
no jacky chou was hurt in this video LOL
why? what did he do?
Would you recommend removing "supporting content" blog posts that drive no traffic? eg these would have been set up to build topical authority with the aim of internally linking to category pages that you want to rank. I see this a lot with sites that use this tactic.
No dude. Dont do it
The true answer is that it's really hard to tell. Review that supportive content and determine its quality. If it addresses the Users question very quickly and with accuracy, then keep it. If not, consider updating it.
what I love about this channel is no BS. Thanks man!
Appreciate it.
God damn